Sent out a plea to please sign up for greeting shifts (only 6 of the 21 had been filled)

Answer about a million emails

Take a shift at the greeting table

eat lunch

answer about a million more emails

go to opening convocation

skip the post-convocation reception to go back to my office and work, but realize that if I sit down at my desk I’ll explode from overwhelmedness

go home… answer about a million more emails

Tuesday

Class prep

email

lunch

Reference shift

class (The Shakespearean Film Scholar’s version of the library)

Greeting shift

Fix one of our microfilm machines (turns out the poor library technologist and our IT department had been working on it for quite some time, but I’m the only one on campus who knew the fix. Too bad I hadn’t come over earlier to see what was up.)

Plan evening student worker training (yes, that was last minute) and throw together some illustrative stats for them so they can see what they do here.

Set up for training

Train student workers

Snacks with newly trained student workers

Dinner with some friends followed immediately by bed

Wednesday

email

get to work

more email

class prep

course research guide creation

greeting shift

lunch

more class prep

Marvel that it’s not Friday. All of a sudden if felt like Friday. I so wish it were Friday.

class (The German Literary Scholar’s version of the library)

prepare for student worker training

Talk to co-worker about her upcoming class

more email

train student workers

snacks with newly trained student workers

Go home, keep all the lights off, and watch a DVD of Big Bang Theory in bed. Supper? What supper? Supper requires sitting.

Thursday

Departmental meeting, at which we learned that the network had gone down the night before, which meant that the evening shift librarian had to call the emergency on-call guy and be walked through the process of bypassing fried systems and their fried back-up systems.

email

class prep

lunch while playing Carcassonne on my iPod (lovely brain break)

email

Course research guide creation (only 3 more requests to fill!)

Run around helping people close down the 4th floor computer lab (all the computers in the reference room) because the IT department has to swap them out for the computers in the language lab (long story).

Class (team-taught with the media librarian — finding sources on Shakespeare and film)

Meeting with an English prof to discuss learning goals for his class and how I can help his students meet them. And plan a course guide.

email

Research guide creation

Wait, it’s not Friday yet? Longest. Week. EVER.

class prep

Write a thank you note to the library staff for helping out with our greeting project this year

Hear that the print management system also crashed this evening — be glad I don’t work for IT

Dinner with a couple of other friends — bed

Friday

Finally. Friday. Whew.

Get to work via the detour around a broken gas line and milling crowds of evacuated college staff.

Class (importance of scholarly book reviews, finding book reviews, and why citation is more fun than it seems)

email

research guide creation

lunch

Evaluating a potential online resource

class prep — so tired of class prep… But yay for generous colleagues who take my reference shifts for me so I can prep

omnipresent email

Pub night with friends! Followed by BED … I think I’ll sleep for the next 48 hours.

Sounds like a bit of a day in the life of a librarian — bad week version. Congratulations for survival.
Personally I kept getting confused last week on what the date was, but fortunately my job is not school-year related, so no big.